Henry Harrison Walker

Henry Harrison Walker (15 October 1832-22 March 1912) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Henry Harrison Walker was born in Sussex County, Virginia in 1832, and he graduated from West Point in 1853 and served in the US Army on the frontier and during Bleeding Kansas. When the American Civil War broke out, he became a Confederate States Army captain, becoming colonel of the 40th Virginia Infantry during the Seven Days Battles. On 27 June 1862, he was wounded twice at the Battle of Gaines' Mill, and he commanded the defenses of Richmond from September 1862 to July 1863. On 1 July 1863, he was promoted tp Brigadier-General, and he lost his left foot at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864. On 9 April 1865, he personally informed President Jefferson Davis of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was paroled in Richmond on 7 May 1865, and he moved to Morristown, New Jersey after the war and worked as a stockbroker until his death in 1912.